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Italian Indigenous Grapes: Bianco d’Alessano and some other “B” grapes
I have been writing a dictionary of sorts on Alta Cucina’s website of Italian indigenous grape varieties. It is very slow going because there are more than 3000. In fact, no one know exactly how many there are. On the … Continue reading
Italian Indigenous Varieties: Ancient Asprinio From Campania
This is the last article in my Italian indigenous grape variety series of grapes starting with the letter “A”. I can’t believe how many there were. Asprinio Bianco is a little known indigenous Italian white grape variety that hails from … Continue reading
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Arneis From Piedmont
Piedmont is quite renowned for its red wines such as Barolo, Barbaresco, Ghemma, Gattinara and Dolcetto. In fact, Piedmont has the most wines that have received the Denominazione dOrigine Controllata e Garantita or D.O.C.G. designation of any region in Italy. … Continue reading
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Ansonica/Inzolia
I wrote this article for Altacucina as part of my Italian grape dictionary. It is amazing that I am still in the first letter of the alphabet. I feel like I have been writing about grapes that begin with the … Continue reading
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Three Little Known Italian Indigenous Varieties: Arvesiniadu, Avana’ & Avarengo
Italy’s indigenous grape varieties include a host of little known varieties which are essentially used as blending grapes. In the interest of completeness, I decided I would mention these on my blog instead of adding them to my dictionary for … Continue reading
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